Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 15 products, most often hair care.
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What does Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate holds water in the skin or the product and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and hair conditioning.
What is Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate?
Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate is the salt of Gluconic Acid and 3-aminopropanol.
- CosIng reference
- 95589
Which products contain Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate in the ingredient lists of 15 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care.
Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 8 · Germany 6 · Morocco 2 · Portugal 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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Sources
The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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